Tag Archives: Ginger

Today is a winter soups day. It is snowy, blustery and cold outside. In my snug mountain cabin it is almost seventy degrees with the oven on for hours and a fire blazing away since seven a.m. This week has been so crazy insane busy that today I have nothing planned …

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Three years ago I thought of pickle hand in hand with burgers. This was three years prior to trying my first fresh baked parathas on the cow dung filled streets of Bangalore. In the month we spent in Bangalore, I picked my way amid the piles of trash on every street corner and yes maybe …

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I have a new addiction. Homemade sushi. If you are making your own sushi from scratch then of course you need to make homemade pickled ginger to go with it! With all my terrible food allergies I am finding these days there are very few foods I can eat that do not destroy my stomach. …

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Every one needs a friend like Mary. This is not poison oak. Probably I thought that I was the nature guide. Than I met Mary. And she showed me what poison oak really looks like. Well, that explains why I get poison oak so often. To be fair there …

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If anyone is an expert on the Big Bear Valley it’s probably me. I have spent so many thousands of hours and hundreds of miles on my running shoes exploring every inch of this mountain. So when I read online that there is an ancient Native American artifact site in our San Bernardino Mountains that …